The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

Man is by nature a political animal.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.