She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'