Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

I am I plus my circumstances.

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

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.