“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”

Henry Miller on Writing (1964)

To an ambassador (1785), as quoted in The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Autobiography http://books.google.com/books?id=lWcsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA392 (1851), by Charles F. Adams, p. 392.
1780s
Context: Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

Source: City of Ashes

As quoted in [Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882, Derfler, Leslie, Harvard University Press, 1991, 11, https://books.google.com/books?id=L_E_OR6owEEC&pg=PA11]

Source: Kafka on the Shore

The Hindu Times
Heathen Chemistry (2002)

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

(14th October 1826) Changes
The London Literary Gazette, 1826