Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.