Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Fear is the start of wisdom.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.