True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Perfect love casteth out fear.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.