Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.

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.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.