My hints for living are my own (as far as I know), but I like yours as well.

Do you have attribution for these?

I especially like your first one - I wish more Americans (are you listening Bill O’Reilly?) would begin to operate from this point of view by default - especially when commenting on the controversy around illegal immigration.

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

“Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.”

“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 real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.”

“To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”