“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”

“All men by nature desire to know.”

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

“The Law is Reason free from Passion.”

“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause - the wickedness of human nature. Indeed, we see that there is much more quarrelling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property.”

“It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.”

“It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.”