"Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes."

"Life is a constant dying."

"The value of a man is determined by what he is, not by what he has."

"The more intelligent a man is, the more he suffers."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit…"