O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the aid of thy master, Legislation

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

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

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.

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.