When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

Whatever you do, you need courage.

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

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

We boil at different degrees.