Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.