"Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because t..." — Jacques Maritain

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.