Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings