Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.