“For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.