We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable.

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.