"Yes, I am a libertine, I admit it freely. I have dreamed of doing everything that it is possible to dream of in that line. But I have certainly not done all the things I have dreamt of and never shall…"

"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life."

"Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other."

"The human heart is the most fertile ground for vice."

"My tastes are not general, I admit; but they are not criminal."