How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

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?