Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids.

The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.