The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer fiction, if the material events which mark and ballast my career had not their public dates and characters scientifically discoverable.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.