Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss.

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

Now it is nothing but torture.