John Stuart Mill — "The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the …"

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual."

"The 'self-regarding' actions are those which primarily and directly affect only the agent himself."

"Justice is a name for certain moral requirements, which, regarded collectively, stand higher in the scale of social utility, and are therefore of more paramount obligation, than any others."

"Every man who says frankly and without cant, what he thinks, will be in some way a benefactor to his age."