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

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

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 rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.