Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime