Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.