Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
Jeremy BenthamWhy should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
Jeremy BenthamThe said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy BenthamKind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
Jeremy Bentham