The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.