Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.