“ I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. ”

“ The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ”

“ I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ”

“ Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ”

“ The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. ”

“ Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ”

“ I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. ”

“ No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ”

“ Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ”

“ A nation is the same people living in the same place. ”