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Air (song). What constitutes an air. The movement from low to high, from high to low, along carefully arranged curves. On festooning and embroidery in airs.
Every religion is august when everyone believes in it. Unbelief alone makes the marvelous ridiculous.
December 19.
Metaphor. How (when it is natural) it shows a lively intelligence in action, in motion, in play. That this is how it pleases.
She looked like an idea.
These inventors were bold because at every trial, and by instinct, they felt that what was old was weak, rotten, worn out. One walked on an old floor that one felt bending beneath one.
December 23.
O belles-lettres, how many errors and fatigues you spare the mind of one who loves only you! — Yet it is necessary to know the ugly letters; but one must learn them and forget them quickly.
Academy, of Inscriptions. Has checked the extravagances of erudition, as the Academy of Sciences has the extravagances of physics.
December 24.
V[oltaire] has introduced and made fashionable such luxury in works of the mind that even the simplest foods can now be offered only on dishes of gold or silver.
December 25.
... Yet the study of the heavens, which is the study of the night (the time intended for sleep)...
December 29.
Kings no longer know how to reign.
December 31.
For its secret worship has only a private use. It is public worship, radiant, full of pomp, solemn, that politics must favor. What it destroyed is the very thing it should have established.
Children. Like an inflated style.