Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.