Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.