What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.