Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

What is more immoral than war?

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

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.

Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.