No power is strong enough to be lasting, if it labours under the weight of fear.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.