Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.