The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.

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

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.