Women are far more intelligent - some of them are no longer the slaves either of husbands, or priests. They are beginning to think for themselves. They can see no good reason why they should sacrifice their lives to please Popes or Gods. They are no longer deceived by theological prophecies. They are not willing to suffer here, with the hope of being happy beyond the clouds - they want their happiness now.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

You had better be the emperor of one loving and tender heart, and she the empress of yours, than to be king of the world. The man who has really won the love o…

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, b…

Reason, Observation and Experience - the Holy Trinity of Science - have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the wa…

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.