"Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime."

"The most delicious of all pleasures is to be the cause of pleasure in others."

"Virtue is but a mask which one puts on and takes off according to need."

"Ah, a little of this, a little of that, it's my life's happiness, you know. I've not much patience with mild or tidy pleasures."

"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."