The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

A well ordered society would be one where the State only had a negative action, comparable to that of a rudder: a light pressure at the right moment to counteract the first suggestion of any loss of equilibrium.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.