We are unable to give life, and therefore ought not wantonly to take it away from the meanest insect, without sufficient reason; they all receive it … - Soame Jenyns

If christian nations therefore were nations of christians, all war would be impossible and unknown among them.

Thousands are collected from the idle and the extravagant for seeing dogs, horses, men and monkeys perform feats of activity, and, in some places, for the privilege only of seeing one another.

Man is that link of the chain of universal existence, by which spiritual and corporeal Beings are united … How will man, that sanguinary tyrant, be able to excuse himself from the charge of those innumerable cruelties inflicted on his unoffending subjects committed to his care, formed for his benefit, and placed under his authority by their common Father?