“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.”

Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,

It only causes you to play a villain so I can be a queen.

Being impatient is the cause of expectations and overthinking.  

If you don’t drop the ego, it will be the cause of your downfall. ⁣

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all.

The past is only going to cause you more pain. Stay away from it.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.