The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity.

We are what we repeatedly do.