"Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel."

"My friend, you must understand that I am a man of letters, and that is why I write."

"It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is thef…"

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

"There is no act so infamous that it cannot be excused by necessity."