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.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Music fathoms the sky.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.