If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Men of different tastes have different pursuits.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.