All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.