The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

What Degas called 'a way of seeing' must consequently bear a wide enough interpretation to include way of being, power, knowledge, and will.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.