More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.