One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

To confound the tyranny of man there should exist for a century a third sex, both male and female, and stronger than men. This new sex would prove with the lash that men as well as women are made for its pleasure; and then you would hear men protesting against the tyranny of the hermaphrodite sex and admitting that strength should not be the sole rule of right. Just why do they refuse to grant the women the independence which they would demand from the third sex?

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.