"I am glad that you approve and applaud my design of withdrawing myself from all tumult and business of the world..."

"... solitude can be well fitted and set right but upon a very few persons."

"Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals."

Le cinéma, la radio, la danse, tous ces nouveaux moyens de mécanisation de l’humanité, exercent un pouvoir énorme qui ne peut être dépassé.