O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

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.

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

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

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

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

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.