Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.