We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love. Of course, if the spectator be without the last, the whole will present but a pitiful appearance, and in that case, the sun is merely so many miles in diameter, the trees are good for fuel, the flowers are classified by stamens, and the water is simply wet.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.