We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man

Man is a fugitive from nature.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.