In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions