Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Nature, run counter to your convenience or jar your opinions.

And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.