Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine.

Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".