There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.