All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.