How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

A hated government does not long survive.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.