...the Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is

The Principle Of Asceticism Never Was, Nor Ever Can Be, Consistently Pursued By Any Living Creature. Let But One Tenth Part Of The Inhabitants Of The Earth Pursue It Consistently, And In A Day's Time They Will Have Turned It Into A Hell.

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.

Lawsuits Generally Originate With The Obstinate And The Ignorant, But They Do Not End With Them; And That Lawyer Was Right Who Left All His Money To The Support Of An Asylum For Fools And Lunatics, Saying That From Such He Got It, And To Such He Would Bequeath It.

I Don't Care Whether Animals Are Capable Of Thinking; All I Care About Is That They Are Capable Of Suffering!

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