A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.