All poetry is misrepresentation.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.