No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

Friendship is communion.

Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

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