It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon'…

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

Hope is the boy, a blind, headlong, pleasant fellow, good to chase swallows with the salt; Faith is the grave, experienced, yet smiling man. Hope lives on igno…

There is probably no point in my going into your questions now; for what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring your outer a…

Nec speres aliquid nec extimescas, exarmaueris impotentis iram; at quisquis trepidus pauet uel optat, quod non sit stabilis suique iuris, abiecit clipeum locoq…