There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.