Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.