The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

In true love it is the soul that envelops the body.

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.