The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.

All children are essentially criminal.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.