Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.
Distance is the soul of beauty.
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.
Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.