We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.