“Life is too short to read a bad book.”

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.