The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

The world is God's language to us.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

Time does us violence; it is the only violence.