The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

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

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

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

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.