Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.
Right... is the child of law.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
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.