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

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!

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.

What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing.

Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible.

Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

...the way to reform has always led through prison.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

If you go around promising what you do not yet have, you will lose the will to achieve it.

From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.

March on, the Lord is our General.

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".