The destruction of the personality is the great evil of the time.

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.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

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

Love has been in perpetual strife with monogamy.