The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.