Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

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?

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

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

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

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