Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated.

The Golden Age was never the present age.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful