"Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays.- Wine and Hashish"

"It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs."

"The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness."

"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."