“This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character”

“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early”

“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work”

“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. ”

“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”