» Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
» He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
» In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.
» It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
» There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
» Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.
» Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.
» Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
» The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
» He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.