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

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.