If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.