"It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is thef…"

"Virtue, for me, is merely a word."

"I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties."

"And if I were a naughty little boy, the idea is to spank me into good behavior?"

"Nature has made us perverse, and we are only following her dictates."