The Radical Defect In Christianity Is That

The Loss Of Our Illusions Is The Only Loss From Which We Never Recover.

The Scorn Of Genius Is The Most Arrogant And The Most Boundless Of All Scorn.

Excess Always Carries It's Own Retributions.

I Have Known Men Who Have Been Sold And Bought A Hundred Times, Who Have Only Got Very Fat And Very Comfortable In The Process Of Exchange.

When You Talk Yourself, You Think How Witty, How Original, How Acute You Are; But When Another Does So, You Are Very Apt To Think Only - What A Crib From Rochefoucauld!