The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

It is not easy to be a pretty woman without causing mischief.

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.