She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.