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.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.