If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces. Calls and the theatre are the two great centers for the propagation of platitudes.

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Man habitually sacrifices his life to his purse, but he sacrifices his purse to his vanity.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.