People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.