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

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

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

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

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

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

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