I Was Born To Travel And Write

Literature Has Nothing To Do With Usefulness; The Most Useful Place In Any House Is The Toilet.

Art Is Beauty, The Perpetual Invention Of Detail, The Choice Of Words, The Exquisite Care Of Execution.

Fortune Loves To Give Bedroom Slippers To People With Wooden Legs, And Gloves To Those With No Hands.

Once [a Cat] Has Given Its Love, What Absolute Confidence, What Fidelity Of Affection!

It May Well Be That The Pictures Of Courbet, Manet, Monet And Their Like Contain Beauties Which Escape The Notice Of Such Old Romantic Heads As Ours, Already Streaked With Silver Threads.