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

The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

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

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased