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

"All errors which are likely to do harm, are the proper objects of animadversion, and may be justly censured."

"The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument unfolded in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity."

"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."

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."