Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.