The rotten apple spoils his companion.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Love of country is the Mason's deed; world citizenship is his thought.