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

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

“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.”

“The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;”