Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.