Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.