"I was full of ambition; accustomed to hear myself puffed and praised; and my father was always dinning into my ears the necessity of pushing myself forward — so be hailed this visit as the making of m…"

"Tyranny and anarchy are the two great evils that afflict mankind."

"The more closely a man is confined, the more he is an object of compassion."

"The principle of utility, or, as it is also called, the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle, states that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they …"

"The utility principle is the only one that can consistently justify punishment."