Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.