The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.