Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.