The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

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

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.