To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

There are things stronger than the strongest man.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.