I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.