The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good to the one good of his arcanum - the vague body of mysteries that he calls the truth.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.