Jacques Maritain quotes
A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
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.
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.