The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.