The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.