A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants
The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Democracy passes into despotism.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.