At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

What governs men is the fear of truth.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.