'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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