Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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