Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
