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.

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.

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

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.

Humility is attentive patience.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.