It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Perception starts with the eye.