The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.