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

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

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

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

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

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.