Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Where there is love there is life.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?