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

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.