Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.