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

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.