I never change, except in my affections.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.