By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

When you taste honey, remember gall.