Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]
The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.