All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.