It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.