For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.