If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

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

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.