An old novel has a history of its own.
In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.