It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.