Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it.

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow.
It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing.
Even when no one reads us.

*Posterity is not the whole of future generations. It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

Jesus Christ would not attract listeners today by preaching as the Son of God, but as the son of a carpenter.