Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.