Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.