The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

What is deferred is not avoided.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.