Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.