What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!