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

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.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

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

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

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.