Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by the other; regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is too complex.

age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

Books are not life, only its ashes.