He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.