A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
What a grand thing, to be loved? What a grander thing still, to love?
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
We are for religion against the religions.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
To love is the only thing that can occupy and fill up eternity. The infinite requires the inexhaustible.
To love beauty is to see light.
To love another person is to see the face of God.