Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.