Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.