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.

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

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

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.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

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