Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

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

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

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.