Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
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.
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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.