What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.