To force solitude on a man who has just come to understand that he is not alone, is that not the definitive crime against man?

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

To impoverish that reality whose inhumanity constitutes man's majesty is tantamount to impoverishing him himself. I understand then why the doctrines that expl…

To create today is to create dangerously. . . Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness; and e…

No one can endure his own solitude.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, m…