Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

The best path through life is the highway.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.