I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.