... 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.

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Music is a defining element of character.