I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.