For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.