Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
No social stability without individual stability.
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.