I Should Have Been Happy: I Wasn’t.

I Wished To See Storms Only On Those Coasts Where They Raged With Most Violence.

The Most Familiar Precepts Are Not Always The Truest.

We Ought At Least, From Prudence, Never To Speak Of Ourselves, Because That Is A Subject On Which We May Be Sure That Other People's Views Are Never In Accordance With Our Own.

The Only True Voyage Of Discovery, . . . Would Be Not To Visit Strange Lands But To Possess Other Eyes.

The Particulars Of Life Do Not Matter To The Artist; They Merely Provide Him With The Opportunity To Lay Bare His Genius.