The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

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

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

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.