A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death.

Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.