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

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

One could count on one's fingers the number of scientists throughout the world with a general idea of the history and development of their particular science: there is none who is really competent as regards sciences other than his own. As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only drudges doing scientific work.