The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse – and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor – is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

Nature’s instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

There are two ways of expressing things; one is to show them crudely, the other is to evoke them artistically.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself “Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!”

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying “this is mine” and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

I felt before I thought.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I felt before I thought