The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth