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

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

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.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.