Any Enjoyment Is Weakened When Shared.

The Completest Submissiveness Is Your Lot, And That Is All.

Social Order At The Expense Of Liberty Is Hardly A Bargain.

So Long As The Laws Remain Such As They Are Today, Employ Some Discretion: Loud Opinion Forces Us To Do So; But In Privacy And Silence Let Us Compensate Ourselves For That Cruel Chastity We Are Obliged To Display In Public.

One Is Never So Dangerous When One Has No Shame, Than When One Has Grown Too Old To Blush.

My Manner Of Thinking, So You Say, Cannot Be Approved. Do You Suppose I Care? A Poor Fool Indeed Is He Who Adopts A Manner Of Thinking To Suit Other People! My Manner Of Thinking Stems Straight From My Considered Reflections; It Holds With My Existence, With The Way I Am Made. It Is Not In My Power To Alter It; And Were It, I'd Not Do So.