Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.