In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

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

Right... is the child of law.