Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Man by Nature desires to know.

There is no genius who hasn't a touch of insanity.

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.