Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

... for it is from our lives and not from our words, that our religion must be read.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

How much pain have cost us the evils which never happened.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.