For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.