He read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile.

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”

“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest …”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

“Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me-- with us …”