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.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

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.

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.

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.