The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

There is no other start to philosophy but wonder.

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

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

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.