If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.