Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Reputation is the road to power

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.