The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Many friends are the key to happiness

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.