The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.