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.

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

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

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.