It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.
All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.
The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity that ever were written.
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sin and suffering.