I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.

I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

What we don't understand we don't possess.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.