"The only true happiness is to be found in the satisfaction of one's desires."

"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."

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

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

"I have been punished for my thoughts, not for my actions."