"A pretty girl ought simply to concern herself with fucking, and never with engendering."

"Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, w…"

"I prefer the madness of passion to the wisdom of indifference."

"To be good is to be weak."

"The greatest joy is to commit a crime and get away with it."