If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.