Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt.