The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understanding of her language
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
God, that checkroom of our dreams.
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.