Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.