It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.

Be the flame, not the moth.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.