Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

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

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

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

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.