Nature Has Placed Mankind Under The Government

Publicity Is The Very Soul Of Justice. It Is The Keenest Spur To Exertion, And The Surest Of All Guards Against Improbity.

[i]n Principle And In Practice, In A Right Track And In A Wrong One, The Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is Consistency.

The Day May Come When The Rest Of The Animal Creation May Acquire Those Rights Which Never Could Have Been Withholden From Them But By The Hand Of Tyranny.

An Absolute And Unlimited Right Over Any Object Of Property Would Be The Right To Commit Nearly Every Crime.if Ihad Sucha Right Over Thestick Iamaboutto Cut, I Might Employ It As A Mace To Knock Down The Passengers, Or I Might Convert It Into A Sceptre As An Emblem Of Royalty, Or Into An Idol To Offend The National Religion.

Judges Of Elegance And Taste Consider Themselves As Benefactors To The Human Race, Whilst They Are Really Only The Interrupters Of Their Pleasure ... There Is No Taste Which Deserves The Epithet Good, Unless It Be The Taste For Such Employments Which, To The Pleasure Actually Produced By Them, Conjoin Some Contingent Or Future Utility: There Is No Taste Which Deserves To Be Characterized As Bad, Unless It Be A Taste For Some Occupation Which Has Mischievous Tendency.