I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

Make you the most impatient are your greatest source of learning.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

"Humor is a way of dealing with the world, a way of coping with the world, and a way of understanding the world."