The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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.
Reputation is the road to power
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?