Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life..

All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire..

You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the….

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see..

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time..

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history..

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck..

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world..

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear..

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off..

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale..

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself..

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable myst….

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight..

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it..

Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed oc….

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it..

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please..

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends..

A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully..