“Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.”

“We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.”

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

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”

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

“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.”

“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”