Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep

One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.