Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.