He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!