Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Art includes everything which stimulates the desire to live; science includes everything which sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.

Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.