As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

After victory, you have more enemies.

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.