The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

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.

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

...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!