“I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.”

“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.”

“If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person”

“Details are always vulgar”

“I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.”

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”