All wealth is the product of labor.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.