Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

Man is a tool-making animal

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

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.