Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.