A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

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.

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.

If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.