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

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.