The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.