The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a v…

Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage, Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on, the sage Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn Th…