Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.