To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

There is only one duty; that is to be happy.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.