Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.