Who said “If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly…”?

“What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”

“If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.”

“Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body.”

“So do not think of helpful whores as aberrational blots; I could not love you half so well without my practice shots.”

“There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.”

“We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.”

“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

“People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.”

“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.”

“No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.”

“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”