Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

‎"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.