Reputation is the road to power

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.

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

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

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand