The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.