... 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.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.