I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
All writing is a form of prayer.
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
My creed is love and you are its only tenet.
Wine is only sweet to happy men.
I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.