Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.