“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. ”

“He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.”

“He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.”

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”

“As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.”

“As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.”