It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Hell is not to love anymore.