The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.