Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.