Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.