You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.