To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

A right which goes unrecognized by anybody is not worth very much.

The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.

Truth is one, but error is manifold.