"The English are a race of shopkeepers, and they have brought their shopkeeping mentality to governance."

"The mist, like a dream, hangs low over the fields."

"The political game of hide-and-seek, with its constant compromises and deceits, is unworthy of human beings."

"The machine age has turned human beings into cogs in a giant machine."

"The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air."