Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

One may say with one's lips: “I believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;” or, “I believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;” or, “God is One, and also Three;” — but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense.