"The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it…"

"The only way to be truly free is to deny all authority."

"The greatest pleasure is to imagine what is impossible."

"The law which attempts a man's life is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime -- for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold."

"Virtue, for me, is merely a word."