The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

The devil is compromise.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!