The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.