The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.