"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."

"It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak."

"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."

"The great mass of changes are improvements, because the old system was bad."