Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

I cannot live without books.

The power of making war often prevents it.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the laws, and private individuals. Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionaire, and generally on a more favored one whenever their rights seem to jar.

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.