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.

death was the price of life.

I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King. And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Clouds of black birds rose up wailing and screaming, like the thoughts of my heart.

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

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.