Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.