The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties... The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery
If a man's aspiration towards a righteous life are serious, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because it is plainly immoral as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, ie., killing - and is called forth only by greed
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat and a time will come when man such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation