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

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.