How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.