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.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.