The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.