One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

I can, therefore I am.

It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

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