Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.