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

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.