"Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power."

"The only good is that which is contrary to nature."

"I am a man of my century, and I write for my century."

"Nature, in order to enjoy her pleasures, must be cruel."

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