But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.