One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.