Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."