It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

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

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.