There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Being a father is the most rewarding thing a man whose career has plateaued can do.