Quote #7784
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Quote #13367
Diplomacy is to do and say, The nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Quote #553
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is...
Quote #11559
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations...
Quote #6496
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
Quote #16598
One cannot both feast and become rich.
Quote #7947
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates...
Quote #6528
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Quote #6518
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself...
Quote #15929
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.