Democracy passes into despotism.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

You can't do good if you don't feel good.

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.