Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.