If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Necessity is God's veil.

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.

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.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.