Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

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

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