I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.