“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.