The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.