I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.