The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.