The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
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...
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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.
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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.