Modesty was made for the ugly.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.