If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love