The law always limits every power it gives.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.
Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices.