Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest..

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist..

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution..

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look..

When we love - we grow.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists..

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved..

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands..

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!.

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art..

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen..

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and nea….

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always s….

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has ….

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument..

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you..

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil..