Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.