A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

God will pardon: That's His business.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.