Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive.

Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.