Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.