How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

It requires only two things to win credit for a miracle: a mountebank and a number of silly women.