All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.