Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.
A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Military men are the scourges of the world.
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.