If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

No social stability without individual stability.

What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.