Want keeps pace with dignity. Destitute of the lawful means of…

Ah! when will the yoke of Custom—Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all other tyrants make their slave—ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?—when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure

It is the principle of antipathy which leads us to speak of offences as deserving punishment. It is the corresponding principle of sympathy which leads us to speak of certain actions as meriting reward. This word merit can only lead to …

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.

[I am] at heart more of a United-States-man than an Englishman.