When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

All art is a revolt against man’s fate.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.