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

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

When truth is buried underground it grows, it chokes, it gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything with it.

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

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

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.