“ Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. ”

“ The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. ”

“ There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ”

“ He who hath many friends hath none. ”

“ All men by nature desire knowledge. ”

“ The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. ”