Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

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

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

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.

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

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