It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

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.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Confidence is providence

it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Robert Whitmore died of apoplexy when a stranger from Georgia mistook him for a former Macon waiter.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.