There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.

Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.