Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.