1. “The happiness of society is the end of government.”
2. “Because the power corrupts, society demands for moral authority and character increases as the importance of the position increases.”
3. “Great is the guilt of unnecessary war.”
4. “Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
5. “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
6. “If conscience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.”
7. “Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction and division of society.”
8. “Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
9. “I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
10. “A desire to be observed, considered esteemed, praised, beloved and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart.”
11. “There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with commitment and those who require the commitment of others.”
12. “I must judge myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”
13. “Everything in life should be done with reflection.”
14. “To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”
15. “They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledge ourselves.”
