Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.