Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your...

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who...

How many women are there … who because of their husbands’ harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love.