Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

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

Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.