Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.