"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."

"Why is his last new novel sleep itself? Because it's so poor. — sopor."

"The past is a pebble in my shoe."

"Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not?"

"He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling."