If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

This God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.