Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.

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

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

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

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.