When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

We must become just be doing just acts.