“ It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. ”

“ Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art. ”

“ Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy. ”

“ Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ”

“ Nature does nothing in vain. ”

“ The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ”

“ Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. ”

“ Bad men are full of repentance. ”

“ Wit is educated insolence. ”

“ Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ”