Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
A work of art is an exaggeration.