The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction.

One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.