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If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.