“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.”

“Do good to your friends to keep them,to your enemies to win them.”

“The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.”

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.”

“All the property that is necessary to a man for the conservation of the individual and his propagation of the species is his natural right, which none can justly deprive him of; but all property superfluous to such purposes is the property of the public, who by their laws have created it, and who may therefore by other laws dispose of it, whenever the welfare of the public shall demand such disposition. He that does not like civil society on these terms, let him retire and live among savages.”