The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

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

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

Right... is the child of law.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.