A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

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

Art is the accomplice of love.

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

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

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

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain . . . Without God’s guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

To affirm is to make firm.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.