No Power Of Government Ought

To What Shall The Character Of Utility Be Ascribed, If Not To That Which Is A Source Of Pleasure?

Priestly Was The First (unless It Was Becarria) Who Taught My Lips To Pronounce This Sacred Truth--that The Greatest Happiness Of The Greatest Number Is The Foundation Of Morals And Legislation.

Kind Words Cost No More Than Unkind Ones . . . And We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindliness Around Us At So Little Expense. If You Would Fall Into Any Extreme Let It Be On The Side Of Gentleness. The Human Mind Is So Constructed That It Resists Vigor And Yields To Softness.

Nature Has Placed Mankind Under The Government Of Two Sovereign Masters, Pain And Pleasure.

As To The Evil Which Results From Censorship, It Is Impossible To Measure It, Because It Is Impossible To Tell Where It Ends.