The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
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.
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.