Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Colour itself is a degree of darkness.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.