We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.