The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.