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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.