Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.