Humility is attentive patience.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.