In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.