Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

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

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.