When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

When you have a sorrow that is too great, it leaves no room for any other.

When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: "If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss.

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.