When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.