From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.