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!

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means the dominance of temperament in the manner, is a gift from God, possessed by very few.

Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

We are all born marked for evil.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.