“Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man”

“Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know”

“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children”

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”

“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer”

“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear”