Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.