Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Music fathoms the sky.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

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

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