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

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

On reaching a certain degree of pain we lose the world.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.