How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.