To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.