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.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

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

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.