A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.