Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.