"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

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.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

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

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.