“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ”

“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ”

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

“If the error is thrust deeply enough into the soul, man cannot but succumb to it.”

“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”