To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!