A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.

Read not the Times, read the Eternities.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.