"The world would be a gainer if it were more generally understood that the present moral education of mankind is of a very imperfect kind."

"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…"

"The 'self-regarding' offences, if they are to be called offences, are not to be punished at all."

"The strongest of all arguments against the present constitution of society is, that it does not permit the free development of every individual."

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