O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.