I see but one rule: to be clear.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.