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

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

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

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.