“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.
“Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time