“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”

“...your service will be arduous, it will be painful and rigorous, and the slightest delinquencies will be requited immediately with corporal and afflicting punishments; hence, I must recommend to you prompt exactness, submissiveness, and total self-abnegation that you be enabled to heed naught but our desires; let them be your laws, fly to do their bidding, anticipate them, cause them to be born...”

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

“The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.”

“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”

“Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.”

“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.”