The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

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

One who faces and who fears the right things and from the right motive, in the right way and at the right time, posseses character worthy of our trust and admiration.

There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.