The kind of loving women and men have in them and the ways it comes out from them makes for them the bottom nature in them, gives to them their kind of thinking, makes the character they have all their living in them, makes them then their kind of women and men and there are always many millions made of each kind of them.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Too few is as many as too many.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.