Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

A full Belly brings forth every Evil.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.