I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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.