"Every time that a man has, from a pure motive, renounced a possession, a pleasure, a satisfaction, a compensation, he has increased the quantity of being in the universe."

"The whole of history is nothing but the history of the struggle of man against necessity."

"The greatest good is to do nothing."

"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul."

"To be oneself is to be nothing. To be nothing is to be God."