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

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.

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.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.