Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.