"The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an…"

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulat…"

"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."

"I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

"What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"

"The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves."

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar o…"

"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people."

"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we cou…"

"The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is a…"