I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.