The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.