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

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

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

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

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

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.