At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.