The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded upon the spirituality of work.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Necessity is God's veil.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

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.