Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

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

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life.