If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more terrible than all the excesses and deviations for which wine is made responsible. Is it not reasonable to suggest that people that never drink wine, whether naive or doctrinaire, are fools or hypocrites....?

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.