Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

True friendship can exist only between equals.