When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

You are what you do repeatedly.