I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

. . . everything seems insupportable to me. This may very well be because I am insupportable myself.

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

[On the legend that after being beheaded St. Denis walked six miles with his head in his hands:] It is only the first step that is difficult.

God is not more incomprehensible than you; but if he is not more just, it is hardly worth while beIieving in him.

Faith is a devout belief in what one does not understand.

Who can find a virtuous woman?For her price is far above rubies.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

Mountains are where heaven meets earth.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.