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.

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

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

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.

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.

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