Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.