Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

To beautify life is to give it an object.