It is no easy task to be good.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.