I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Siempre se puede ser amable con las personas que no nos importan nada.

It is only intellectually lost who ever argue.

For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.

Was there anything so real as words?

You fill me with apprehension. The appeal to Antiquity is fatal to us who are romanticists.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.