Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.