A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don't be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.