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.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.