It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor the couch of the goddesses.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?