we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

Nature always levies her tribute.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.