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

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

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

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 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.

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

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