You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Progress is the life-style of man.

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.