I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Don't ever confuse motion with progress.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.