Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

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

Hope is a risk that must be run.

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

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.