Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.
The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.
Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.