All Poetry Is Misrepresentation.

What Else Is It That Should Trace The Insuperable Line? Is It The Faculty Of Reason Or Perhaps The Faculty Of Discourse? But A Full-grown Horse Or Dog Is Beyond Comparison A More Rational, As Well As More Conversable Animal, Than An Infant Of A Day Or A Week Or Even A Month Old. But Suppose They Were Otherwise, What Would It Avail? The Question Is Not, Can They Reason?, Nor Can They Talk? But, Can They Suffer? Why Should The Law Refuse Its Protection To Any Sensitive Being? The Time Will Come When Humanity Will Extend Its Mantle Over Everything Which Breathes.

No Power Of Government Ought To Be Employed In The Endeavor To Establish Any System Or Article Of Belief On The Subject Of Religion.

Happiness Is A Very Pretty Thing To Feel, But Very Dry To Talk About.

[i]n Principle And In Practice, In A Right Track And In A Wrong One, The Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is Consistency.

The Power Of The Lawyer Is In The Uncertainty Of The Law.