The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work.

Live daringly boldly fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Remember you will not always win. Some days the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is in this case always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Beauty is the sole ambition the exclusive goal of Taste.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today so beauty is something that changes with time.