It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.