When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.