... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.