"The most beautiful of Nature's works is the human being in the throes of passion."

"I am a man of my century, and I write for my century."

"Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later."

"The universe is a chaos of matter and motion, without any intelligent principle."

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