A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

The soul was never put in the body to stand still.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.