Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!
Sooner barbarity than boredom.
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.