Right... is the child of law.

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.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

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 day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.