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

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

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

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”

“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.”

“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.”