Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?