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

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

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

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

“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.”

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”