What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.