"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."

"The freedom of poetic license."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."

"By force of arms. (Vi Et Armis)"

"Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic."

"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."

"And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man."

"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others."

"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."