Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

All government is an ugly necessity.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old human life dancing like children and drinking wine like men; for Christianity is the only frame for pagan freedom. But in the modern philosophy the case is opposite; it is its outer ring that is obviously artistic and emancipated; its despair is within.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.