All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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.