There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.
In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.