A community is like the ones who govern it.

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.