Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

The weather still continues charming.