If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

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

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Everything without exception which is of value in me comes from somewhere other than myself, not as a gift but as a loan which must be ceaselessly renewed.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.