Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

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

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.