No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning

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Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude

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Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood

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Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness

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Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind

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Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves

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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

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It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end

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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less

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It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them by such a division

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