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

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

"It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth, within the limits imposed by the rights and interests of others, that human …"

"It is not the business of the law to make people good, but to prevent them from doing harm."