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

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

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

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

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

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

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

It's Not Usual To Be Unusual.

If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

If you call yourself a non-believer, you're referring to disbelief in something, and you're acknowledging that there is something to believe in or not.