Distance is the soul of beauty.

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.