A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.