| The only substance properly so called is the soul. |
| Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. |
| Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. |
| To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. |
| Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. |
| True humility is contentment. |
| Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. |
| Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. |