It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

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

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

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

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.