I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

I am wholly yours - you are everything to me; we will sustain each other in all the ills of life it may please fate to inflict upon us; you will soothe my troubles; I will comfort you in yours.

They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.