That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.