Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

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.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.