The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.