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

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

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

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Right... is the child of law.