Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.