Women whom Life has enlightened and whom it has disappointed! You I can help.
I see two lovers hand in hand, kissing the tears away from each other's eyes.
I can only rouse the wakeful. Nothing can be done with those who are incapable of feeling noble indignation.
I have known two women prefer death to the infamy of conjugal life.
Open the newspapers!--hardly a line that is not a lie.
And poets and speakers flatter a people like that.
Christianity and Humanity have long wished for divorce. Now this is an accomplished fact.
And the priests are honoured. They plume themselves on not having certain vices, for which they are too weak.
I know that I shall be stoned, that every boy has his balderdash ready against that to which the reflection of years and sleepless nights has given birth. But do you think I am afraid of anyone?
Stupidity was always the bodyguard of Lies.