Christianity was preached by ignorant men and believed by servants, and that is why it resembles nothing ever known.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.