The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.