When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

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?

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.