The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

The world is eaten up by boredom. You can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.