Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.