One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.