Natural Rights Is Simple Nonsense: Natural And

Nature Has Placed Mankind Under The Government Of Two Sovereign Masters, Pain And Pleasure.

Judges Of Elegance And Taste Consider Themselves As Benefactors To The Human Race, Whilst They Are Really Only The Interrupters Of Their Pleasure ... There Is No Taste Which Deserves The Epithet Good, Unless It Be The Taste For Such Employments Which, To The Pleasure Actually Produced By Them, Conjoin Some Contingent Or Future Utility: There Is No Taste Which Deserves To Be Characterized As Bad, Unless It Be A Taste For Some Occupation Which Has Mischievous Tendency.

Kind Words Cost No More Than Unkind Ones . . . And We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindliness Around Us At So Little Expense. If You Would Fall Into Any Extreme Let It Be On The Side Of Gentleness. The Human Mind Is So Constructed That It Resists Vigor And Yields To Softness.

Lawyers Are The Only Persons In Whom Ignorance Of The Law Is Not Punished.

The Offence Is What Is Improperly Called The Death Of An Infant, Who Has Ceased To Be, Before Knowing What Existence Is, A Result Of A Nature Not To Give The Slightest Inquietude To The Most Timid Imagination; And Which Can Cause No Regrets But To The Very Person Who, Through A Sentiment Of Shame And Pity, Has Refused To Prolong A Life Begun Under The Auspices Of Misery.