"The principle of utility, or, as it is also called, the greatest happiness or greatest felicity principle, states that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they …"

"The more strictly the lines of demarcation between the several branches of the law are observed, the more perfect will be the system of legislation."

"The world is governed by words."

"Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts."

"The human mind is a machine for happiness."