What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.