Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Reputation is the road to power

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

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?

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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

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