“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”

“A soul for a piece of bread. Misery makes the offer; society accepts.”

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.”

“Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread. a”

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”

“But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life.”

“Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Somestimes the stomach paralyzes the heart.”