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

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Reputation is the road to power

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

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