A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.