Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.