Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.