“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.”

“I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.”

“It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.”

“The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”