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

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

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.

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

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?