The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.