The only proper intoxication is conversation.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.