Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.

A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.