Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.