But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.