You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.