Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.