As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.