Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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.
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.