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

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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