It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.