The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.