Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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

Reputation is the road to power

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.