I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Thought is invisible nature.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.