A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

Imagination grows by exercise.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.