Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Merchants have no country.

Health is worth more than learning.

I cannot live without books.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.