How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Respectability offends my taste.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.