Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.