The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

It is very easy to love alone.