A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

I am luminous with age.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.