It is defeat which educates us.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.