Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship.