All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

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

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

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.

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

Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.