Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.