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

"Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime?"

"The law which attempts a man's life is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime -- for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold."

"There is no act so infamous that it cannot be excused by necessity."

"The wicked alone are happy, because they alone are free."