Do the right thing because it is right.

Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.