Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

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

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.