Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived, have forced me to take a part in resisting them, and to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.