It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

One only really sees with the heart.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.