"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."

"The universe is a chaos, and man is a part of that chaos."

"The only true religion is the religion of pleasure."

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

"I have no other desire than to live and to write."