Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The city is recruited from the country.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.