Every Law Is An Infraction

How Is Property Given? By Restraining Liberty; That Is, By Taking It Away So Far As Necessary For The Purpose. How Is Your House Made Yours? By Debarring Every One Else From The Liberty Of Entering It Without Your Leave.

[i]n Principle And In Practice, In A Right Track And In A Wrong One, The Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is Consistency.

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.

We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindness About Us At Little Expense. Some Of Them Will Fall On Good Ground, And Grow Up Into Benevolence In The Minds Of Others, And All Of Them Will Bear Fruit Of Happiness In The Bosom Whence They Spring.

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.