The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.