What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.