…the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or to diminish something of their pains.
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.