Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

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.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.