…He possibly believed, with Proust, that a work in which the theory is visible is like an object which displays its price-tag.
— Fragments of an Identical World, Bonnard. Sarah Whitfield. Abrahms, New York. P. 9

These thoughts from Montesque which I came across the other day, where he says that as soon as a man’s mind reached maturity his bodily powers begin to fail.
—Delacroix, Journal. Tuesday, 9 October 1849