"I have always preferred the society of vice to that of virtue."

"The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment."

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

"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."

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