It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

What soon grows old? Gratitude.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.