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.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

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

The only crime is pride.

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.