It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are always some whom one can love.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.