But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.