Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on a finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is at least regard for human freedom.

Progress therefore is not an accident, but a necessity. It is part of nature.

Marriage- a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.

Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a definite, coherent, heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men’s lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.