Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan virtue, if these two words are compatible. The word pagan, when applied to Rome, early possesses the significance charged with horror which the early Christian controversialists gave it. The Romans really were an atheistic and idolatrous people; not idolatrous with regard to images made of stone or bronze, but idolatrous with regard to themselves. It is this idolatry of self which they have bequeathed to us in the form of patriotism.

The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Every kind of reward constitutes a degradation of energy.

Nothing is worse than extreme affliction which destroys the "I" from the outside, because after that we can no longer destroy it ourselves.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.