Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Do the right thing because it is right.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.