Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Analysis kills spontaneity.