When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

Great men have always had dogs.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.