"The greatest part of the world are born to poverty and wretchedness, not for want of abilities in themselves, but from the want of opportunities to exert them."

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. I believe in one God, and no more."

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

"It [hereditary succession] appears under all the various characters of childhood, decrepitude, dotage, a thing at nurse, in leading-strings, or in crutches. It reverses the wholesome order of nature. …"