The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.