The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
No one can keep a secret better than a child.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
To contemplate is to look at shadows.
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.