White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

I was born to travel and write verse.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.