Always let losers have their words.

I don't believe art is available; it's rare and curious and should be completely isolated; one is more aware of its magic the more it is isolated.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

In charity there is no excess.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.