To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.