There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Everyone has the same God; only people differ.

Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.