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

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

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.

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.

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