The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

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.