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?

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

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

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