"The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual."

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

"The only way to get a good government is for the people to choose it wisely."

"All that makes existence valuable to any one, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people."

"The 'self-regarding' offences, if they are to be called offences, are not to be punished at all."