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?

All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

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.

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.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.