Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

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.