Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.