That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

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

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with