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

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

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

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.