An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it. Victory and defeat are each of the same price. Travelling makes a man wiser, but less happy. The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do. The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body. This sense is submitted indeed in some degree to the guidance of reason; but it is a small stock which is required for this: even a less one than what we call common sense. State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none. | 
