God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Strict law is often great injustice.

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.