Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.