Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

Religion is the venereal disease of mankind.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

There is only one way to be prepared for death: to be sated. In the soul, in the heart, in the spirit, in the flesh. To the brim.

Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

We like someone because. We love someone although.