Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.

Stubbornness is not firmness.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.