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

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

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.

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.