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

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!

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

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

I want to be the victim of his errors.