We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.