No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain

The wishes of an honest man do not stretch beyond what he undoubtedly deserves.

One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.