In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.