“Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.”

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men. They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o’er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual’s originality that is most important?

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, – that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.

People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.

Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.