Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.