Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.