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

"The human mind, when it is in a healthy state, is never satisfied with having attained a certain measure of truth; it is always aspiring to a higher."

"The only freedom which consists in doing what one desires, is a freedom which, if not qualified by other considerations, is inconsistent with the good of society."

"The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind."

"Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance."