We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy

A Civilized Society Must Count Animals As Worthy Of Moral Consideration And Ethical Treatment. The Question Is Not, Can They Reason? Nor Can They Talk? But, Can They Suffer?

Secrecy, Being An Instrument Of Conspiracy, Ought Never To Be The System Of A Regular Government.

We May Scatter The Seeds Of Courtesy And Kindness About Us At Little Expense. Some Of Them Will Fall On Good Ground, And Grow Up Into Benevolence In The Minds Of Others, And All Of Them Will Bear Fruit Of Happiness In The Bosom Whence They Spring.

...the Rarest Of All Human Qualities Is Consistency.

Judges Of Elegance And Taste Consider Themselves As Benefactors To The Human Race, Whilst They Are Really Only The Interrupters Of Their Pleasure ... There Is No Taste Which Deserves The Epithet Good, Unless It Be The Taste For Such Employments Which, To The Pleasure Actually Produced By Them, Conjoin Some Contingent Or Future Utility: There Is No Taste Which Deserves To Be Characterized As Bad, Unless It Be A Taste For Some Occupation Which Has Mischievous Tendency.