It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.