Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.