It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for 1 never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward- the bars.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.