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

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

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.

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

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

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