There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.

It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

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