True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.