Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.