Art is nothing without form.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.