"To live well is to work well, to show a good activity."

"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."

"Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will."

"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."

"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."

"The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others."

"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."