It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.