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

“It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that I don't believe anything he has told me.”