"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to some one else if she is plain."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects."

"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

"The only thing worse than being quoted is being misquoted."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made…"