During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.