Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

There are three thing in the world I love most: the sea, Hamlet, and Don Giovanni.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.