The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

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.

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

All poetry is misrepresentation.