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.

Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

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

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

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.