The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.